We’ve also got Alex’s kid, plus if the gap was shorter then Singh wouldn’t be senior enough to be the scapegoat, they’d have had to appoint someone with previous MCRN experience who wouldn’t have made all those mistakes

History generally paints Eden in a pretty bad light due to Suez, it's just that not very many people know about that particular part of history. I don't think many of the PMs between Churchill and Thatcher have left much of a mark on the public conciousness (or at least, what mark they did leave has faded away by now).